Reread the earlier posts in this thread and you'll find pretty much all that's factually worth knowing about the Invincibles.
The conundrum of the Czar's Parker is a perfect example of creative/revisionist history which resulted in a popular mystery (e.g., "where is it and who has it?) that became self-perpetuating until records and documentation burst the bubble, so to speak.
The "wealthy gentleman from the Northeast" who shelved #230329 was A.C. Middleton, President of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The storage on the "slanted shelf" and subsequent disposition of the gun is well documented in TPS,
The individual advertising to buy a 20-gauge Invincible reminds me of a similar character who called me up in the middle of the night (literally) to tell me that he had found an Amish farmer who owned a (the) 4th Invincible and didn't know what to do with it.
"If you wait by the window long enough, they all come by."
- Lyn Nofziger, Press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan
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